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Brokerages on the Front Lines of Data Revolution
The trading of equities, fixed income and foreign exchange (FX) has become a lightning-fast world, one that gets a bit faster every day. Every month, it seems there are fewer traders waving their hands around on the floor of the stock exchange-much to…
Thomson Reuters, Savvis Partner in India
Thomson Reuters has partnered with network and hosting services vendor Savvis to provide direct datafeeds and proximity hosting to international trading firms seeking low-latency access to Indian equity markets, officials tell Inside Market Data.
UniCredit Taps Caplin, Reuters for e-FX
MILAN-As a cornerstone of its multi-asset e-commerce initiative, European bank UniCredit's market and investment banking (MIB) division has selected Caplin Trader from Caplin Systems and the Reuters Electronic Trading-Automated Dealing (RET-AD) platform…
Credit Suisse Expands FX Algos to Asia
Hong Kong-Following the launch of algorithmic trading in foreign exchange (FX) in North America and Europe earlier this year, Credit Suisse's Advanced Execution Services (AES) has recently expanded the capability to Asia, according to bank officials.
ICE Heats Up Options
Even as the financial crisis unfolds on Wall Street, customers are demanding innovation and functionality from over-the-counter (OTC) markets. DWT reporter Oksana Poltavets sits down with Edwin Marcial, CTO of the IntercontinentalExchange (ICE), to…
CQG Adopts Progress Apama for Advanced Ex
BEDFORD, MASS - Denver - headquartered futures charting and trading software provider CQG has announced today, Nov. 10, that it plans to deliver advanced execution capabilities on its platform using Progress Apama's complex event processing (CEP)…
First Coverage Aggregates Myriad Media Sources
TORONTO-To help traders deal with the proliferation of information from various sources, trade idea distribution platform provider First Coverage has announced the latest version of its offering that aims to aggregate information from different media…
Curse of the Black Swan
Black swan events are few and far between, but when they do occur they are generally memorable occasions. This is precisely what happened during Black Week – from Monday 6 to Friday 11 October – as Asian investors triggered a sell-off that saw the Dow…
Fixnetix Taps Corvil for Latency Monitoring
UK-based low-latency data and trading technology vendor Fixnetix is using technology from Irish vendor Corvil to provide ongoing latency monitoring and management services for existing subscribers to the vendor's feeds, and benchmark performance…
eSignal Opens Up FutureSource For Energy, Agri Focus
Interactive Data's eSignal division last month unveiled a new version of its FutureSource commodities, futures and foreign exchange data workstation, including new content and the ability for users to display proprietary and third-party data within the…
Cognotec Releases RealStream Upgrade
DUBLIN-Improvements in research, analysis and client onboarding are a few of the new features that officials from Web-based institutional foreign exchange (FX) trading software provider Cognotec have upgraded with the launch today, Nov. 3, of version 3.0…
European Bats on the wing
As competition among exchanges and multi-lateral trading facilities (MTFs) heats up, ECN Bats Trading is taking on both markets simultaneously, having gained exchange status in the US and approval to launch an MTF in Europe. Max Bowie speaks with Joe…
Traderforce Targets December Rollout for Update
French market data and trading technology vendor Traderforce aims to deploy the first production release of version 11 of its desktop terminal by the beginning of next month, and plans to migrate all clients onto the new platform before the summer of…
Panel: Market Data Tech Spend Must Continue
Trading firms will need to continue investments in market data and infrastructure to support spiralling levels of data traffic driven by the proliferation of new trading venues, spikes in volatility and the spread of algorithmic trading, according to a…
SR Labs Unveils Composite Book Aggregator
SR Labs, a New York-based provider of low-latency data co-location technology, has launched a new product that provides a consolidated book of data from multiple exchange feeds, officials say.
Futures Exchanges Vie for OTC Market
CHICAGO & ATLANTA-The current economic turmoil is forcing some U.S. derivatives exchanges to diversify their products and operations to meet the new customer demands and earnings challenges.
HSBC Aims to Achieve Global Platform ROI
LONDON-In 2009, HSBC expects to reach a "harmonization" phase in terms of return on investment (ROI) from a multi-year investment in a standard global IT platform, according to bank officials.
Panel: Should Firms Connect to Every Venue?
LONDON-As the number of multilateral trading facilities (MTFs) in Europe increases, firms face a dilemma: Should they connect to all venues?
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